diff --git a/RefactorPlan b/RefactorPlan
index dea7005f..ef776353 100644
--- a/RefactorPlan
+++ b/RefactorPlan
@@ -25,11 +25,8 @@ exception confusion. These two functions should be a lot simpler.
 * get_file_hashes is overly complex and contains strange code like:
 for r, d, f in os.walk(parent, topdown=False): pass
 
-* dir_size tries to calculate symlink lengths, this is probably not very
-helpful, since in most cases, they fit in the inode, and wont take any
-extra space at all. We can keep the number of file in the index though.
-That way we can calculate package size + (nr of files * inode size of fs)
-to give a more correct required disk size.
+* To estimate required disk size for the packages more accurately we can
+calculate package size + (nr of files * inode size of fs).
 
 * Why in a world like this there exists *parse_package* util functions? These must be all methods of package class
 
diff --git a/pisi/util.py b/pisi/util.py
index b191aafa..69457798 100644
--- a/pisi/util.py
+++ b/pisi/util.py
@@ -296,13 +296,13 @@ def dir_size(dir):
         return getsize(dir)
 
     if islink(dir):
-        return long(len(os.readlink(dir)))
+        return 0
 
     def sizes():
         for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir):
-            yield sum([getsize(join(root, name)) for name in files if not islink(join(root,name))])
-            yield sum([long(len(os.readlink((join(root, name))))) for name in files if islink(join(root,name))])
-    return sum( sizes() )
+            yield sum([getsize(join(root, name)) for name in files if not islink(join(root, name))])
+            yield sum([long(len(os.readlink((join(root, name))))) for name in files if islink(join(root, name))])
+    return sum(sizes())
 
 def copy_file(src,dest):
     """Copy source file to the destination file."""